Been Quotes

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. If I'm wildly in love, I've sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the kind of person that I've been in love with.

I think we had a Ben Webster/Gerry Mulligan record... that might have been it. We only had a few records in the house.

A lot of the things that seem to be coming out now [in 2016] could have been written just maybe three years ago by the Gang of Eight or by Jeb Bush.

I've been in love before, every love-relationship is tough and it has its challenges.

Luckily, no one I've ever been in love with has needed me to save their life!

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you.

Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

Job-wise I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago but I hate when people vomit.

Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have been, she used to say, all that matters is what is.

Perfect night, wasn't it?" "It could have been." I smiled up at him. "But you were there.

Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.

I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.

I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

And the United States of America should have been at the front of that line. And was not.

I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.

I just went and saw 'Crazy, Stupid, Love.' Julianne Moore - I've been in love with her since 'Boogie Nights.' But also, 'The Big Lebowski.'

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.

There was a possibility I could have been out of the NBA. It's taught me something that was a little deeper than basketball. I'm talking about life decisions.

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

If you think love makes you happy, you've either never been in love, or never been in love long enough to have to start compromising.

You should never start thinking about 'what might have been,' and you should also never start thinking about another boy when you're heartbroken over someone else.

No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.

Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.

I've been in love with my best friend and not been able to tell that person.

Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been.

He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

If Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania wins, for instance, it will tell Republicans that their own brand hasn't been hurt too badly by [Donald] Trump's negatives.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.

How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

No husband of mine will say, "I could have been a drummer, but I had to think about the wife and kids. You know how it is." Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure.

Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?